The September 2024 New Music Mix Tape can be found on Spotify. Listen in-blog below for a more rich experience, or on Spotify for uninterrupted music. Please note below each song is a link to song lyrics for accessibility. Check out more details on how to best enjoy mix tapes.
Good day and welcome to the September 2024 New Music Mix Tape, featuring all the very best music from the last month, right here on KMTJ-DB – Your Mix Tape Journey – Denver, Colorado.
I’m DJ Ponyboy. Thank you so much for joining me today and the first Sunday of every month for the New Music Mix Tape; as always, I dare you to listen to one of my new music mix tapes and then tell me there is no good new music.
If you love the music of the 1960’s and lament that “the music today” isn’t as good, check out the Heavy Heavy, a UK-based band uniquely blending folk-rock, psych-pop, and Brit-pop, describing themselves as, “a 5 piece band [making] music the sixties forgot”.
With the title track from their debut studio album One of a Kind, just released September 4th, enjoy the Heavy Heavy on KMTJ-DB, Denver.
Like me, new artist Ashe grew up listening only to Christian music. She thanks her grandfather for introducing her to artists like Bob Dylan, The Beatles, and Jefferson Airplane.
While not a country song (I would consider it Adult Contemporary), the steel guitar on this song is breathtakingly beautiful. Mad props to Chris Scruggs (grandson of bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs) for his phenomenal addition to this track.
Here is Ashe with “Ashe”.
I’m DJ Ponyboy and I have to say, you go girl! I am glad it is becoming more socially acceptable to be vulnerable, honest, and human. Ashe – A-S-H-E – the ‘e’ paying homage to the incomparable Carole King.
Up next, rising star and friend of the station Sexyy Red – featured on my very first New Music Mix Tape way back in March 2024.
While my personal proclivities prohibit me from following her direction, I have to give mad props for one line in the chorus as the picture she paints with lyrics is top-shelf: “Dive into my coochie like you’re jumping off the roof”.
Sexyy Red and “U Know What to Do” on KMTJ-DB, Denver.
Speaking of lyrics that paint a picture, check out our next song featuring Jessie Murph (included on the August 2024 New Music Mix Tape) and Bailey Zimmerman (included on the June 2024 New Music Mix Tape).
Enjoy Jessie Murph with Bailey Zimmerman and “Someone in This Room”.
What an achingly beautiful song. Those harmonies!
Country not your thing? How about emo pop-punk?
Blink-182 is a pop-punk band popular in the 1990’s that emerged from Southern California’s suburban skate punk scene. Off their first album since 2019, One More Time…, here is Blink-182 with “Take Me In” on KMTJ-DB – Your Mix Tape Journey – Denver, Colorado.
New from Blink-182, it’s “Take Me In”. As my dear friend Karli reminded me, it feels reminiscent of their 2016 album California.
I’m DJ Ponyboy and I appreciate you joining me here the first Sunday of every month to celebrate the very best new music from the previous month. Make sure to come back next week (10/13) to join me for the first of two Halloween mix tapes – Happy Spoopy Season – and two weeks after that (10/27) for Freaky Kiki!
Another friend of the station, new R&B artist Teddy Swims has been featured on the July 2024 New Music and August 2024 New Music Mix Tapes.
Vibe to his new track – “Bad Dreams” by Teddy Swims.
Brantley Gilbert is an American country rock singer, songwriter and record producer from Jefferson, Georgia with a new song celebrating “Tattoos” on KMTJ-DB, Denver.
My brother likes to point out that while tattoos are “permanent”, they are only life-long, and thus one of the more temporary forms of artwork.
I’m DJ Ponyboy. Stevie Nicks is an American singer-songwriter known for her work with the band Fleetwood Mac and as a solo artist. Enjoy her fantastic new track pleading on folks to show up and vote to prevent our country ending up dashed upon the rocks.
Stevie Nicks with “The Lighthouse” on KMTJ-DB, Denver, Colorado.
“Don’t let them take your power”. That was Stevie Nicks with “The Lighthouse”.
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Another friend of the station, first-generation Nigerian-American singer-songwriter from Arizona Joy Oladokun was featured on the April 2024 New Music Mix Tape.
In her latest tune, I draw thematic comparisons to music from Brittany Howard (Alabama Shakes), Gary Clark Jr., and the Clash.
Here is Joy Oladokun and “I’d Miss the Birds”.
“I’d miss the birds and the music that they make, but even they know when to fly away”. What a beautiful and heartbreaking song. I support you Joy; you take care of you.
If you are out there struggling with a difficult decision today, know that you need to do what you know in your heart is right for you and the ones you love the most. I’m DJ Ponyboy and I am here for moral support.
Active since 2001, Miranda Lambert is a Texas country singer, songwriter, and guitarist, collaborating here with Parker McCollum, an American country singer-songwriter based in Texas and active since 2013.
Enjoy this bittersweet new tune from Miranda Lambert and Parker McCollum, “Santa Fe” on KMTJ-DB, Denver.
“Hollon” hoe! New GloRilla!
GloRilla – an American rapper from Memphis, Tennessee – with her new track “Hollon”.
One thing I have learned as I have gotten older is that sometimes, as hard as it can be to accept, two seemingly conflicting things can be true.
Here is American country pop singer, songwriter, and four-time Grammy Award nominee Kelsea Ballerini with “Two Things” on KMTJ-DB – Your Mix Tape Journey – Denver, Colorado.
Peach Pit is a Canadian indie pop band from Vancouver, British Columbia who has been making music together since 2014. We just heard their new tune “Did You Love Somebody”. Kelsea Ballerini before that with “Two Things”.
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Continuing the new music with All Time Low; an American rock band from Towson, Maryland, their name was inspired by lyrics in New Found Glory’s song “Head on Collision”. Here they team up with Michigan’s Grammy-nominated rock band, I Prevail.
Enjoy their post-breakup joint “Hate This Song” on KMTJ-DB, Denver.
All Time Low with I Prevail and “Hate This Song”, giving similar angsty vibes to the All-American Rejects song “Gives You Hell”.
Continuing the introspection is American singer, musician, and songwriter from Missouri Christian Lee Hutson, who began his career as a member of The Driftwood Singers before pursuing a solo path in 2019.
Christian Lee Hutson and “Carousel Horses”.
Active since 2010, Perfume Genius is an American singer, songwriter, and musician whose music explores topics including sexuality, struggles with Crohn’s disease, domestic abuse, and the dangers faced by gay men in contemporary society.
Perfume Genius with their achingly beautiful “Story of Love” on KMTJ-DB, Denver.
With their first new release in seven years, California rock band Linkin Park and “The Emptiness Machine”. Perfume Genius before that with “Story of Love”.
I’m DJ Ponyboy and as Monty Python might say, “now for something completely different”.
Giving Switchblade Symphony vibes, with overtones of Evanescence and a touch of Dresden Dolls, new artist Yaelokre intrigues with their new release “Bird Cage Blue and Yellow” on KMTJ-DB – Your Mix Tape Journey – Denver, Colorado.
Lead member of the hip hop collective ASAP Mob, American rapper A$AP Ferg hails from Harlem, New York City. We heard his collaboration with Voice of Harlem on new track “Off White Rozay”. Yaelokre with “Bird Cage Blue and Yellow” before that.
I’m DJ Ponyboy. Thank you so much for joining me today to hear all the very best new music from September 2024. I hope you have had as much fun as I have had.
If you miss the sounds of the 1970’s, check the far out vibes of new artist Jalen Ngonda.
Enjoy his new track “Anyone In Love”.
I’m DJ Ponyboy. Thank you so much for joining me today on KMTJ-DB – Your Mix Tape Journey – Denver Colorado.
Until next time, stay gold.